“The work is very unpretentious in style and naïve in its simple-hearted revelations of the writer’s feelings, filial, paternal, and professional.”
| + | Dial. 42: 258. Ap. 16, ’07. 240w. | |
| Educ. R. 34: 208. S. ’07. 80w. |
“Given with much detail, and forms one of the most interesting chapters of American educational history.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 678. Ap. 27, ’07. 240w. |
“Taken as a human document, this autobiography has something of the charm and flavor of the old-time Quaker journals, their unconscious wholesomeness and delightful naïveté.”
| + | Nation. 84: 524. Je. 6, ’07. 810w. |
“To those interested in educational matters his book would have been of more value if it had had more of the pedagogical and less of the personal note.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 390w. |
“It is ... an exemplification of the rule that autobiographies are never dull.” Montgomery Schuyler.